麦克斯·布鲁克斯

麦克斯·布鲁克斯（Max Brooks，1972年5月22日—）是一位美国作家、编剧和男演员。他是喜剧制作人梅尔·布鲁克斯和女演员安妮·班克罗夫特之子。他主要写作恐怖和幽默故事。

早年

布鲁克斯生于纽约市的一个犹太人演艺之家。曾在加州的普利策学院短暂学习历史，后来退学。并在University of the Virgin Islands学习过一个学期。1994年毕业于首都华盛顿特区的美利坚大学。

事业

2001年到2003年，他是喜剧综艺节目《周六夜现场》的编剧团队成员。

2003年发表首部书籍《打鬼战士1：世界末日求生指南》。2006年发表《打鬼战士II：档案Z》，该书后来改拍成电影《末日之战》。

个人生活

2003年他与 Michelle Kholos 结婚，两人育有一个儿子 (2005年)，一家人居住在加州洛杉矶的威尼斯。

Maximilian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American writer and actor. He is the son of actors Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks' writing focuses on zombie stories. He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.

Early life

Maximillian Michael Brooks was born on May 22, 1972, in Manhattan, New York City. He is the son of actors Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks. His father is Jewish, while his mother was an Italian-American Catholic.

Brooks is dyslexic. He recalled that while he was growing up:

...they didn't even call it a disability back then; it was just "laziness," "goofing off," "you're not trying hard enough." "You can do it but you don't want to do it" — that was a big one of my teachers. And my mother, one of the greatest, most successful actresses of her day, gave up her career, put her career on the shelf, to raise me, to be my educational advocate and to teach herself about dyslexia. ... She took, every year, all of my school books that I had to read to the Institute for the Blind and had them all read onto audio cassette so I could listen to my reading list. And if I hadn't been able to do that, I wouldn't have graduated high school. I can literally say that not only did my mother give me my life, she saved my life.

Brooks attended Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. He studied at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history. He also attended graduate school, studying film at American University in Washington, D.C.

Career

Writing

From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live.

In 2003, Brooks wrote his first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, a fictional survival manual about zombies. In 2006, Brooks wrote the follow-up World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, a novel on the same subject, set in the ten years following a zombie apocalypse. Paramount Pictures acquired the rights for a film adaptation, and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, produced the film. In the October 2006 issue of Fangoria, Brooks stated that he would not be writing the screenplay for the motion picture, as he felt he was not an accomplished enough screenwriter to "do it right". J. Michael Straczynski wrote the first version of the screenplay.

Brooks wrote the introduction for the hardcover collected edition of Dynamite Entertainment's zombie miniseries Raise the Dead, released in 2007.

In 2010, Brooks wrote the IDW comic book mini-series G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds.

In 2012, Brooks published Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Tales, featuring the story of that name from The New Dead, along with three other short stories set in the World War Z universe.

In 2014, Broadway Books published The Harlem Hellfighters, a graphic novel which portrays a fictionalized account of the African American 369th Infantry Regiment's experiences in World War I, written by Brooks and illustrated by Caanan White. Sony Pictures has purchased the rights to create a film of the novel, with Caleeb Pinkett and James Lassiter producing on behalf of Overbrook Entertainment.

He wrote the story for the 2016 film The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon.

In 2017 Brooks published a novel based on Minecraft, titled Minecraft: The Island, and in 2021, he published the sequel, Minecraft: The Mountain.

In August 2019, Brooks announced a new book, entitled Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, about the cryptid Bigfoot. It was released on June 16, 2020.

In December 2025, Brooks announced a new book was in the works, tentatively titled The First Hundred Hours: A Story of Alien Invasion.